It’s been a little over two years since Elite: Dangerous was released on PC at the end of 2014, but it’s only now that some of the biggest mysteries are being unravelled. After many months of following a trail of artefacts and spaceship wreckage, the first encounters with an alien race known as the Thargoids – a race that has history within the Elite series – have been reported and posted online.
The moment that a working Thargoid ship appears would be considered brilliantly well done in a narrative led single player game, which makes it all the more impressive that Frontier Developments have managed to get it so perfectly into an MMO.
The below video is about 10 minutes long, and obviously spoils the moment for anyone currently on the trail to encounter the Thargoids for themselves, but feel free to skip to around 7:30 minutes in to get to the good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvtYxKGrPs
Elite: Dangerous is out now on PC and Xbox One, with a PlayStation 4 release scheduled for Q2 2017.
via Eurogamer
Severn2j
Haven’t played this for about a month, thanks to overspending on the Steam winter sale. Looks like I’m going to have to dive in again..
homerjnick
Met them once in the original game on my C64 after literally hundreds of hours of playing the game…I hyperjumped to a planet but came out of warp nowhere a planet and was surrounded by these Thargoids…truly epic WTF moment…glad they are in the remake!
sparkyscrum
Never played the games but the introduction of them seems to be handled really well. Certainly an atmospheric introduction.